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<p>Our guests on this episode of <a href="http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2" target="_blank">Teachers Teaching Teachers</a> suggest our topic, or perhaps it would be better to say, our questions. It seemed to us that a teacher from West Virginia, near last year's Massey Mine Disaster, would have something to say to a teacher from Louisiana who lives not far from the BP Oil Spill. And both of these teachers might have something to say to teachers who live near Tokyo, south of TEPCO's <span style="border-collapse: collapse; clear: none; cursor: auto; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: 0pt; outline: medium none; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0pt none; display: inline; padding: 0pt; color: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; clear: none; cursor: auto; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: 0pt; outline: medium none; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0pt none; display: inline; padding: 0pt; color: inherit; line-height: inherit;">damaged Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear-power plant. It has been our goal on Teachers Teaching Teachers to understand these crises through the eyes of our colleagues and their students whose lives are most immediately impacted. Thanks to our guests on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers, we might better understand how and why it is important to bring these stories to our students.</span></span></p>
<p><span style="border-collapse: collapse; clear: none; cursor: auto; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: 0pt; outline: medium none; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0pt none; display: inline; padding: 0pt; color: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><span style="border-collapse: collapse; clear: none; cursor: auto; float: none; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; letter-spacing: inherit; margin: 0pt; outline: medium none; position: relative; text-decoration: inherit; text-indent: 0pt; text-transform: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: inherit; word-spacing: inherit; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; border: 0pt none; display: inline; padding: 0pt; color: inherit; line-height: inherit;">Here's who joined us on this episode of Teachers Teaching Teachers:</span></span></p>
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<li><strong>April Estep</strong>, high school music teacher - <a href="http://twitter.com/MsEstep" target="_blank">@MsEstep</a>, <a href="http://coalfieldwriters.org/" target="_blank">Coalfield Writers</a>/<a href="http://www.muwp1.org/programs.htm" target="_blank">Marshall University Writing Project</a> in West Virginia - <a href="http://twitter.com/muwp" target="_blank">@MUWP</a></li>
<li><strong>David Pulling</strong>, Director of Continuing Education, Louisiana State University, Eunice, Louisiana. David blogs at <a href="http://dpulling.wordpress.com/">David Pulling: I Write; Therefore, I AM!</a> and with his students on <a href="http://voicesonthegulf.org/users/dpulling" target="_blank">Voices on the Gulf</a>. He is a member of the <a href="http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=104711420418" target="_blank">National Writing Project of Acadiana</a>.</li>
<li><strong>Eric Bossieux</strong>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/ericattwit" target="_blank">@ericattwit</a>, a "change agent" living in Japan for over 30 years. He has begun writing a blog, <a href="http://www.tti-jpn.com/TTi/Blog/Blog.html" target="_blank">Crooked Letters, Straight Lines</a>, on his company's website.</li>
<li><strong>Kim Cofino</strong>, <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/mscofino" target="_blank">@mscofino</a> Technology and Learning Coach at Yokohama International School in Japan. Kim blogs at <a href="http://kimcofino.com/blog/" target="_blank">Always Learning</a>. A wiki that Kim started is <a href="http://quakestories.wikispaces.com/" target="_blank">quakestories</a>. And, Kim's <a href="http://groups.diigo.com/group/yokohama/content/user/mscofino" target="_blank">diigo list</a>.</li>
<li><strong><a href="http://www.aprilniemela.com/" target="_blank">April Niemela</a></strong>, ninth grade teacher in Lewiston, Idaho and Co-Director of the <a href="http://www.niwp.org/" target="_blank">Northwest Inland Writing Project</a>. You can also follow <a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/AprilJNiemela" target="_blank">@AprilJNiemela</a>.<br />
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<li><strong>Laura Kriska</strong>, writer of <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/first/k/kriska-office.html" target="_blank">The Accidental Office Lady</a>, Laura is an intercultural consultant, and she just started a website, <a href="http://cherryblossomletters.com/" target="_blank">Cherry Blossom Letters</a> "for American kids here to make art and write letters and then send them in
packages to Second Harvest, a nonprofit aid organization in Japan. Second Harvest makes daily trips to the impacted region and will deliver our packages directly to people in shelters."</li>
</ul>The introductions are pretty interesting on their own, but we hope you take the time to listen to the entire conversation!
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The conversations around&nbsp;<a href="http://voicesonthegulf.org/" target="_blank">Voices on the Gulf</a> continue on this epis<img alt="ToWa-step-by-step" src="http://www.johnmuirlaws.com/ToWa-step-by-step.gif" style="border: 0px solid; margin: 10px;" width="388" align="right" height="232" />ode of <a href="http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2" target="_blank">Teachers Teaching Teachers</a>.&nbsp; Joining on this show with <a href="http://voicesonthegulf.org/users/gdesler" target="_blank">Gail Desler</a>,&nbsp; who works with teachers in the <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CBsQFjAB&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fnapi.net-flow.com%2Fceresassociates.com%2Fdocuments%2FDecember_07newsletter1.pdf&amp;rct=j&amp;q=sacramento%20flyway&amp;ei=fEKhTK_yKcLflgfWwfnXAw&amp;usg=AFQjCNEdE3boI3NVg8Lz0nxBstjCkVwPMw&amp;sig2=Ig-borY0UxviCtoHIlX2uw&amp;cad=rja" target="_blank">Sacramento flyway</a> in California, and three guests from Louisiana: <a href="http://voicesonthegulf.org/users/margaretsmn" target="_blank">Margaret Simon</a>, <a href="http://voicesonthegulf.org/users/dpulling" target="_blank">David Pulling</a> and one of his students at Louisiana State <img alt="ToWa-step-by-step" src="http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/profile-ak-snc4/object2/47/14/n102196836492763_6094.jpg" style="border: 0px solid; margin: 10px;" align="left" />
University at Eunice, <a href="http://voicesonthegulf.org/users/erinjlsue" target="_blank">Erin Jackson</a>.
<p>Learn more about teaching and learning about the environment, including references to bird artists <a href="http://www.johnmuirlaws.com/" target="_blank">John Muir Laws</a> and <a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Save-the-Gulf-Olivias-Bird-Illustrations/102196836492763#%21/album.php?profile=1&amp;id=102196836492763" target="_blank">Olivia Bouler</a>.</p>
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21:03:36 Gail Desler: Hi Peggy<br />
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</object><br />45:36 minutes (10.44 MB)<p>Obama seems to have missed another opportunity in a major address that he gave about the BP oil spill last month (<a href="http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100615/NEWS07/100615070/Prepared-text-of-Obama\-s-speech-on-oil-spill&amp;template=fullarticle" target="_blank">June 15</a>). Earlier he was right to call the Gulf Oil Disaster our<a target="_blank" href="http://www.grist.org/article/2010-06-14-obama-labels-oil-spill-an-environmental-9-11/"> environmental 9/11</a>. Both are life-changing disasters that have many of us asking where we need to stop compromising.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/phylomon/4596217928/" target="_blank"><img hspace="10" align="right" vspace="10" src="http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4036/4596217928_ee35a509f3.jpg" alt="" /></a>On Teachers Teaching Teachers this summer, we are asking what needs to change in our schools and in our lives as teachers. We hope that <a target="_blank" href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/19/opinion/19friedman.html">Thomas L. Friedman&rsquo;s comments in May 2010</a> won&rsquo;t be the last word on the 9/11 comparison. &ldquo;Sept. 11, 2001, was one of those rare seismic events that create the possibility to energize the country to do something really important and lasting that is too hard to do in normal times.&rdquo;</p>
<p>On this episode of <a target="_blank" href="http://teachersteachingteachers.org/?feed=rss2">Teachers Teaching Teachers</a>, we talked about what we can do now that we might not have done before this disaster or failure. This is the second of a series of shows we will be doing on the Gulf oil disaster.</p>
<p>In the previous podcast (<a href="http://edtechtalk.com/node/4798" target="_blank">TTT 204</a>), we had a thoughtful, productive conversation with history teacher Diana Laufenberg<b> </b>about responses in our curriculum to the Gulf Oil Disaster.&nbsp; One of her ideas was to set up Skype connections for our students with people in Gulf states to personalize and more deeply understand the impact of this ongoing disaster. To move this idea forward, we were joined by teacher-consultants from the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.selu.edu/acad_research/programs/slwp/about/index.html">Southeastern Louisiana Writing Project</a>&nbsp; &mdash; <span><b>Carolyn Kirk</b>, <strong>Tasha Whitton</strong>, and <b>Ellen Steigman</b> &mdash; on this podcast.</span></p>
<p><span> </span>On this podcast, we wre also be joined by teachers <strong>Matt Montagne</strong> and <strong>Andrea Zellne</strong>r &mdash; two of our favorite angry, young environmentalists!</p>
<p><span>Won&rsquo;t you join us too?</span> We will continue our conversations about what needs to change all summer on Teachers Teaching Teachers. <span>We want to know what you are thinking. Join us in the chat room or get ready to join us on Skype at <a target="_blank" href="../../../../../../live">http://EdTechTalk.com/live</a> at 9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeanddate.com%2Fworldclock%2Ffixedtime.html%3Fmonth%3D8%26amp%3Bday%3D16%26amp%3Byear%3D2007%26amp%3Bhour%3D01%26amp%3Bmin%3D0%26amp%3Bsec%3D0%26amp%3Bp1%3D0&amp;ust=1276656513298000&amp;usg=AFQjCNGSj9OSM5lSGHwhSijB89mmx8Y6HA">World Times</a></span></p>
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</object><br />46:19 minutes (10.6 MB)<p>This is the first in a series of TTT webcasts that we are doing this summer in response to BP's gushing oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico. We are asking teachers from all over to join us each Wednesday evening this summer to put together a curriculum that will help our students build their own responses to the human, animal, and ecological devestation that has been happening every day since April. Incredibly, this &quot;spill&quot; promises to continue wrecking damage into the fall and winter.</p>
<p>Diana Laufenberg, a teacher at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, started us in this series of shows with a the powerful, clear-eyed stance of a history teacher commited to helping her students find their own answers to &quot;How does this go on?&quot; Diana's descriptions of a project in which her students made infographics this spring will inspire, and her ideas for connecting her students to students in the Gulf will make you want to join us in this endeavor. We also spoke to a math teacher, Matthew, from Pennsylvania.</p>
<p><b>Diana Laufenberg</b> ( <a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/dlaufenberg">@dlaufenberg</a> and <a target="_blank" href="http://laufenberg.wordpress.com/">Living the Dream</a> ) is a history teacher at the Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia. On the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.scienceleadership.org/drupaled/staff">school&rsquo;s website</a>, she is described as &ldquo;a nomad.&rdquo;</p>
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Diana is a true life-long learner. She currently works with 11th grade students at SLA. Experiential education is an integral part of her educational pursuits taking students from the classroom to the real world and back again. Before finding her way to Philadelphia, she was an active member of the teaching community in Flagstaff, AZ where she was named Technology Teacher of the Year for Arizona and a member of the Governor&rsquo;s Master Teacher Corps.</blockquote>
<p>In the second and fourth webcasts in June, podcasts of which will be available later this week, we were privilidged to have teachers from the Gulf join us. We are working to find a place for all of us to contribute resources, connections, and ideas. On this webcast we talk about the possibility of connecting in some way through the <a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/" target="_blank">Learning Network</a> of the New York Times. (See &quot;<a href="http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/28/the-gulf-oil-spill-in-the-classroom/" target="_blank">The Gulf Oil Spill in the Classroom</a>.&quot;) Another possibility is for some of us to work with Suzie Boss and the teachers who have signed up for <a href="http://www.edutopia.org/groups/project-based-learning/pblcamp" target="_blank">Edutopia's Project-Based&nbsp; Learning Camp</a>, which will start in the middle of July (although it's now closed to new participants). Also Matt Montagne started this <a href="https://docs.google.com/document/edit?id=1XZrGntt5j0KLgKCZouw84rFdlCXVRL4a8x1EVQ6I3OA&amp;hl=en" target="_blank">Google Doc</a> to begin collecting our thoughts, resources and plans.</p>
<p>Please enjoy to this podcast. Diana gets us off to a great start on this journey! And please plan to join us this summer <span class="event-description">9:00pm Eastern / 6:00pm Pacific USA Wednesdays / 01:00 UTC Thursdays <a target="_blank" href="http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.timeanddate.com%2Fworldclock%2Ffixedtime.html%3Fmonth%3D8%26amp%3Bday%3D16%26amp%3Byear%3D2007%26amp%3Bhour%3D01%26amp%3Bmin%3D0%26amp%3Bsec%3D0%26amp%3Bp1%3D0&amp;ust=1278296347883000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFqtB5XVmx-Cie12xvJtj9vFhJzSw">World Times</a></span>. </p>
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